How SMT IV Became My Favorite SMT Game 

Getting the ending you didn't want is the most smt4 thing you could do to be honest

The stumble into the White ending was hilarious, she somehow did and didn't read what she was doing, 10/10 playthrough.

“Demons are apparently easier to control than your friends” -CrystAAHHL 2023

Funniest part of the black samurai spoiling Isabeau is that it's a real manga so someone out there got actually spoiled irl lol

"Mastema seems like such a cool character" Laughs in Strange Journey

the SECOND she started saying "i think i get this game, i got over the initial hump pretty quick" i began eagerly awaiting the minotaur fight and it was great

1:09:55 Watching this moment during the stream - where you discovered that (contrary to how SMT3 and SMT5 had primed you with regards to alignment) more choices affected your alignment than whether you chose to work with Jonathan or Walter - was such a treat.

Creepy fact here: 1:04:00 Garote Was widelly used during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship period, and the fact that the game actually depicts a black boy being hunged by this torture device, could be a reference to Robson Silveira, wich was one of the victims of this contraption, and his death would eventually become the motivation from where the "Movimento Negro unificado" (MNU) or "Unified Black movement" (UBM) in english would be created.

SMT games seem like the most difficult series to localize of all time. So much nuanced philosophical dialogue and so much that requires cultural context. SMT4 really is a feat, even with some of the weirder localized stuff on the peripheral, most of the main things seems well presented, especially the choices.

SMT 4: You can not sleep Persona 5: You must sleep

If I got in MegaTen late through Persona 5 Royal, SMT IV really solidified my love for the series! I went out of my way to get all four endings, do all the sidequests, beat all the friends, challenge all the DLC bosses and complete my compendium. Truly this was an experience, one I hope everyone gets to experience during their life, despite how cynical this game can be. I'm glad you got to experience it too! 😄

I’m really hoping you check out the Devil Survivor duology next. It’s that perfect mix between Persona and Mainline SMT. The characters are really enjoyable.

This was my first SMT game. That tutorial as a newcomer was fucking brutal.

it is almost entirely because of Crystal that i bought, played, and obsessively ranted about this game from around Christmas to now. I am beyond help. I am thoroughly obsessed with SMT 4

>makes generally chaos aligned choices. >gets told she's neutral by a Boss. >Chooses Chaos Route during the final alignment choice. >gets Law route. Like, not even Neutral, straight up Law. How far into Law route was she? Doesn't the final choice give you 10 "points" into Law or Chaos to determine your route?

This and SMT 4 Apocalypse are my favorite SMT games. A lot of people talk about how good three is but I really like the character writing in 4 and in the spin off. You get to spent way more time with the cast which really benefits the games story a lot. You get to see why the alignment characters make their choices. Great stuff.

The game that got me into the SMT series, never looked back. Really hoping they can get this kind of writing back for whatever the next game is.

"How do you just like create a kingdom on top of another kingdom?" That is the question that us who have played Dark Souls 2 ask to this day.

hearing her speculate on who stephen is is so fun. Given he was a key character in SMT 1 lmao

Congratulations on completing the quest

So glad you enjoyed my favorite game! As much as I love smt 3 and 5 the characters in 4 blow them all out of the water!

the confidence swings in this game are real *smirk*

If you ever get the neutral ending, I’d love to see your reaction to it

20:30 "Sees Walter as her partner" Ha ha she's in danger.

this and DDS are my favorite games in the franchise. so so so good

Flynn: Hey Walter, can I join you to get the Chaos Ending? Walter: Ya sure *Actually destroys the Yamato Reactor like a boss* White Ending Time

Ever since watching the streams I’ve been waiting for this to drop. Your playthrough (as well as watching it on my own time) personally made this my favorite so far (tied with Strange Journey). Much love!

Glad you enjoyed your time with SMT IV! Amazing game, may I recommend play devil survivor? It’s a strategy RPG x Megaten and has one of my favourite stories in the series. It’s peak SMT and I’d really think you’d enjoy it.

This was so fun to watch, shout out to Deena for the amazing edit

Always so happy to see this game get coverage and to see other people enjoying it. Definitely in my top 5 favorite games of all time. I played it when it came out when I was like 14, and not only did it introduce me to megaten, but it also just made me start to question a lot more things in the world. And of it course it kicked my ass and took my lunch money

I didnt even know how to get the neutral/"true" ending to this game for years when I played without looking anything up, and getting the Law ending when I swear I was leaning Chaos is absolutely a mood.

SMT IV is my favorite SMT game I am glad you enjoyed it can't wait to see the vIdeo on IV apocalypse too (of those streams gets turned into a video)

The fact that I just watched the entire video in one sit even that I alredy beaten the game 3 times with all the endings means alot.. I am so much in love with smt4 so I like watching people experience it for the first time, I was locked with law in my first walkthrough btw

My local gamestop (ebgames in Canada) had a promo where if you bought Fe awakening and SMT IV they would give you a 20 dollar eshop card. I didnt wanna miss out and already was sold on FE so I picked this game up and had a blast. Never beat it because i got lost lmao Also iirc when you die they gave you the choice of using your play coins (the ones on 3DS you earn as you walk) which helped when I didnt want to use my spare macca

little girl: please won't you revive me? crystaahhl/flynn: no. little girl: bich what the fuck???

SMT 4 stablished a new standard for the series storywise, I felt so upseted when they came back to the same simple formula of the oldest games in SMT 5 :/

Oh man. I love SMTIV. It was my first SMT game and I have such good memories of this game. I'm glad you liked this game as well. Oh man I need to replay this game again.

This video alone was alone was enough to make me subscribe. Your editing is really good, and I like the vibes you give off. SMTIV being one of my favorite games of all time certainly helps. Based CrystAAHHL is based.

Really enjoying watching this and reliving the first time smt 4 experience

I really loved watching the streams of this game, highlight being the absolutely highest tier of MOSS gaming I've seen,

Glad you enjoyed the game as much as you did, it's easily my favourite mainline Megaten game tied with Strange Journey. If we're talking spin off series as well then Devil Survivor is an absolute gem as well.

Mastema IS a cool character......in Strange Journey wich i hope she plays at some point

God, minotaurs design is so fucking sick

This game was so freakin sick. Thanks for the vid, i got to relive it

Yesss...waited so long for this!!!!!

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! The game that is just one long bop

I still remember hating the infection/illness status... But loving how they actually tell you what a skill will change into.

7:32 YEAHHH glad it’s catching on outside of rtgame that was so youtube of you crystal

The neutral route is SO GOOD in this game, it's a shame that it's basically impossible to get without following a guide for the choices

If you like SMT IV's scheme of writing, you'll probably like SMT SJ Redux. People tend to overlook it in favor of the mainline SMT games and Devil Survivor, but it's massively underrated. It's very plot dense, but the main issue is that it hasn't been localized yet.

Ahh so excited that you got the chance to play SMT4!

I hope the people that started with SMTV that are now going back to the older SMT games realize how much better the story telling was in previous games. I liked 5 but it for sure was missing the weight that the story in 4 had.

wow, this makes me wanna play smt4. I like how wild some of these designs of the demons are, the story is cool and this looks fun! I wonder if Atlus will remake this someday.

I love this game so much!! Definitely my personal favorite in the series.

Hell yes! The game is super atmospheric.

As someone who enjoyed SMT Nocturne, I completely agree with you. The characters and alignments in that game were not well developed. They never gave me reason enough to care about which side I would pick to fight for. Meanwhile, SMTIV did the complete opposite. You are together with your allies from the very beginning, and traveling with them you get to know their personalities so much better, and you have enough time to establish a connection with them. One of my most memorable moments in the SMT series was when I had to fight and kill Isabeu, who didnt agree with the path I had chosen. I remember very well the feeling I felt of not wanting to kill her but being forced by the game to do so, as if I was having my decisions tested. Honestly, even now years later thinking about it it still hits me, and moments like that are exactly what makes me love the SMT more than other jrpgs.

This "kingdom above a city" concept was really interesting to me, reminded me of Ankh-Morphok, Dark Souls, and that New York video lmao.

59:48, hell yeah, looking like an MMORPG character that just started out and has been playing for like 2 days and is eager to show off their hat.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one startled by that introduction "UHHHNNHHHHHH!!!!" Relax man ; I'm 4 minutes into the game.

0:08 Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani is a film directed by Shinji Aoyama. Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani is what Jesus said on the cross - "my lord, my lord, why have you forsaken me?"

This has the hardest neutral route to follow. Needs a guide just to know what you want before you want it!

"Are you consulting your demons?" "Yes, Burroughs." *Discussing with Chat.*

i think the thing i liked the most was the party thinking tokyo was weird and unclean when in reality THEY were the outsiders

Me: Huh, that guy in the wheelchair kinda looks like Stephen Haw- Atlus: Any resemblance to real persons living or dead is purely coincidental Me: But... Atlus: PURELY COINCIDENTAL

Your reaction to every choice you had in this game was literally just: 😳😳😳

I wonder how long until-3:18 Ah, yes. There it is.

So you helped the demons instead of the Ashura Kai, took all chaos options in the Passage of Ethics, took Walter's route, and yet SOMEHOW, you got Law? How even?

I’m so glad I got to see this video, I ended up getting the Neutral route (And blindly without a guide, lmao) but holy fuck the Law route is just as cool too? Awesome!

Thank you for playing this!!

That's exactly it. I suffered through the Minotaur like everyone else and now I enjoy watching others struggle like I did.

Issacar: Please, make yourself a magnificent samuari...*dies* LOOKS LIKE THE QUEST IS GOING WELL! ....Whut?

i'm so glad you understand how special smt iv is

I love this game so much

I got this game when I was about 14, I didn't finish it, and I don't think I got very far into the game at all, but I think it changed the course of my life...I've never really seen a game as unique as smt IV. The setting, the plot, the dialogue, the character designs, the demon designs, the anesthetics are just way too cool.

But Charon’s always disappointed in you, that’s why they want to speak to the manager

42:12 Crystaahhl lived long enough to BECOME the Mothman.

I highly suggest you upload all the other endings, specially the Neutral/Isabeau ending, when I got that one, I just had massive shivers. ALSO there's secret fiends that you can hunt, but the only way to find them all is being on the Neutral route with Isabeau, but its a massive headache, they have a 1/256 chance of spawning on certain locations and are insanely hard. I hunted them all myself, red rider still gives me ptsd, I uploaded my attempts on my channel btw lol. SMT IV is my fav RPG ever, I even got a 3DS just for it and in total I must have around 600 hours on it (emulation + 300 hours on my 3ds)

I see the quest is going well!

I'm gonna cackle once she starts playing 4A. And "that" DLC which gives you some background about Mikado. If you know, you know. 😏

I love Liam O Brien for playing Akihiko, but I HATE him as Navarre.

If you plant to play SMT IV Apocalypse, then remember this: When you or your demon got the Sick status debuff, every attack coming at you will always hit you, 100%

I actually loved the way SMT 3 portrayed the cast, they seem to go on their own journey just like you yourself & it felt more natural than any other cast of other jrpgs where they're stuck like a glue to the protagonist, sure some of the scenes where they show up could've used some more dialogue where they talk more about their differences but overall they did a really good job IMO. SMT 4 took a more traditional route akin to the way SMT 1 & it executed it really well but personally 3 will always have a special place in my heart.

Smt IV and Smt strange journey have the best stories in the mainline series imho

Hell yeah! Smt4 is a blast to play, the right amount of dificulty and storytelling.

I have played 26 Shin Megami Tensei games.Mainline,spin offs anything that has the Shin Megami Tensei on the title.SMT IV is by far my favourite.And the soundtrack of this games is a masterpiece

Every time Crystaahhl gets a Demons weakness wrong, Fuuka laughs at her in Oracle: lose all SP

hell yea, SMT IV!

27:40 this whole reveal was what got me properly hooked in. Glad I was borderline forced into buying this game, it's truly a next level RPG

If you liked SMT IV this much, I strongly recommend giving the first Devil Survivor a try. Personally I think it has the best thought out endings in the whole series, and the modern day setting improves the story telling and characterization a lot.

I see Crystal is also one with the RTGame :D What an awesome RU-vid!

Huh, a truly interesting Game and you did pretty well for yourself too, i wonder what you’ll play next, I will look forward to find out.

Oh mannnn!!!! Now I want to see how she handles the Fiends. All of them.

I'm still waiting for the Marsh/Crystal crossover

CrystAAHHL is 100% CHAOS

I just beat smt 4, managed to get Neutral so seeing the other sides of the coin is interesting

I think I actually bought my first 3DS to play this game. It is still one of my favorite games of all time, even if I never fully completed it. I got to level 99 and was doing a lot of quest cleanup when I got very anxious over missing route specific things. I need to go back and figure out what route I’m even on and finish so I can dome new game plus runs and see all the endings.

seeing CrystAAHHL go from 0:54 "clearly this director did something right" to 50:04 "This is good, It's is what I was looking for in 3 & 5 that I didn't get" QwQQQQ

I love it when the boss smirks at you and proceeds to wipe my whole team

It's so cool that you played this. SMT4 is the best.

Found this video out of the blue, and gotta say, you're 100% right why SMT IV is great. The community is visceral sometimes, but like any other, just ignore them.